Any pics of aftermarket buckets?

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Subscribed and with a request. Can people attest to how comfortable thier replacement seats are? So far I like the look of the summit sport 70 duster 440 used best,but it was a pic of the side...
 
Here are a couple of Ford van seats I bought from a friend. They are very comfortable but took a little engineering to get in place. I'm still not happy with the mounts. I got them for 50 bucks. Start looking in junkyards..Auto Reclaimation centers if you're PC!:toothy10:

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Robbie2734 said:
Here are a couple of Ford van seats I bought from a friend. They are very comfortable but took a little engineering to get in place. I'm still not happy with the mounts. I got them for 50 bucks. Start looking in junkyards..Auto Reclaimation centers if you're PC!:toothy10:
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Nice looking seats. They look like they belong. What year Ford?
 
Most wreckers in Cananda wont let you walk through thier yards anymore.SUXXX....
 
1MeanA said:
Nice looking seats. They look like they belong. What year Ford?
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Now I wish I could tell you. Jack had them sitting in his office and offered them to me. I would guess mid to late 80's. They are much better then the old buckets, a major improvement. I liked the sebring seats I saw earlier. Maybe I'll check them out next time I'm at the junkyard.
 
gilgallad1138 pics of the back seat pleas, seriously contrmplating this sear conversion, anybody tried seats from a 1994 cadillac sts there much nicer than the 300 seats and its a similar sized car
 
Map63Vette said:
I have a set of seats out of a 94 Viper in my 67. The seats came with the car but weren't installed yet. Bought a bunch of aluminum square channel and some universal sliders off the net and managed to get them in. The car was a bench car though, so I had the raised humps at either end of the floor pans that made the install rather annoying. Also made up a custom tilting setup on the passenger seat so you can get in the back seat. The Viper seats don't tilt forward so I just put in some angle aluminum and hitch pins so that you can pull the rear pins and rotate the seat up and forward some, enough to get in and out of the back easier.
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Did you ever think about running a Jeep Wrangler TJ seat sliders. If your seats don't lean forward, the entire unit tilts. Here is a pic:
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And here is another pic with aftermarket seats:
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I never really looked into in that much. I don't think the rear seat will see that many passengers, but I'd be interested to see the mounts if you can finds some pictures. That's sort of what I did, I just put some pins where the seat connects to the mounting rails so that when I pull the rear pins the whole seat can tilt forward on the front pins. I'll see if I can get some good pictures.
 
jrlegacy23 said:
Did you ever think about running a Jeep Wrangler TJ seat sliders. If your seats don't lean forward, the entire unit tilts.
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Wow, that's a pretty elaborate looking setup, though I'm sure it's a little more stable than what I have. Mine wouldn't be too bad, but I didn't quite get all the rails and everything lined up so there's about a half inch of slop so if you turn a corner quick enough with someone in the passenger seat it'll slide and thunk just a little.
 
Some of that you see is the jack set up for the spare tire, thats where they store it. It is really a pretty simple design. Next time you are in a junkyard, check a jeep seat setup. THe Jeep I used to have was only like that on the pass side.
 
Here are the Viper seats in my car. The install would have been much easier if it weren't for the fact that there were already something like 6-8 holes on either side of the floor anyway from the previous owners' attempts at putting in different seats. Didn't really want to fill all the holes and make new ones, so it's not quite a lined up as I'd like, but they work well. They're pretty comfortable too, I appreciate the side bolsters. I made the mounting rails with just a universal seat slider from Speedway (google search) sandwiched between two 1" aluminum square tubes. In retrospect it was a pain to get the nuts tight in a square tube, but whatever, they're in now =P. The last picture shows the little tilting setup I made, you can sort of see the pins on the third picture too. I want to paint / restitch the gray of the front seats into the ribbing on the rear seats, but I need a back first. The seats came with the car, but I've seen them on Ebay for as low as maybe $75 or so each, so not bad price-wise. The bottoms even have a latch that will let you take the bottom pad / foam off for mounting and stuff which is nice. There's also a little squeeze ball you can see at the front of passenger seat in the first picture that's for a lumbar airbag in the seats. Low tech but it works, lol.

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..so I drove just about 2 hours one way to get to a large salvage yard on Wednesday..they would not deal through e-mail and asked me if I would drive down.. ..any way, I arrived and noticed 4 guys behind the counter and other staff milling about..the dude on the counter..when he wasn't answering the phone..which was every 20 seconds....I guess that the potential phone call is more important than the customer at the counter that you are talking to..very rude..he wasn't that helpful ..he said using other sets would never work with my duster..and when I suggested poking through the lot he stated that the staff doesn't work when it is raining..do they melt ?? ..come back later..I said I drove for two hours to get there and he repeated himself.

I wasn't happy when I left and kinda got lost leaving the town..which was good because I found another salvage yard so I dropped in..the staff were helpful..when the phone rang when you were in front of them , they let others pick it up...anyway, the staff person said that there were a couple of cars that I may be interested in..would I mind going out to the yard with a staff person ????..15 minutes of looking..20 more to have them put the seats in the back of my truck..wow,...I got what I wanted..no leather..cloth with great support in perfect shape and at a great price..I will go back to them in a new york minute..

Now I just have to figure out how to install :)

Ian..
 
grassy said:
..so I drove just about 2 hours one way to get to a large salvage yard on Wednesday..they would not deal through e-mail and asked me if I would drive down.. ..any way, I arrived and noticed 4 guys behind the counter and other staff milling about..the dude on the counter..when he wasn't answering the phone..which was every 20 seconds....I guess that the potential phone call is more important than the customer at the counter that you are talking to..very rude..he wasn't that helpful ..he said using other sets would never work with my duster..and when I suggested poking through the lot he stated that the staff doesn't work when it is raining..do they melt ?? ..come back later..I said I drove for two hours to get there and he repeated himself.

I wasn't happy when I left and kinda got lost leaving the town..which was good because I found another salvage yard so I dropped in..the staff were helpful..when the phone rang when you were in front of them , they let others pick it up...anyway, the staff person said that there were a couple of cars that I may be interested in..would I mind going out to the yard with a staff person ????..15 minutes of looking..20 more to have them put the seats in the back of my truck..wow,...I got what I wanted..no leather..cloth with great support in perfect shape and at a great price..I will go back to them in a new york minute..

Now I just have to figure out how to install :)

Ian..
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Yeah I hear ya on the rudeness of some places. I had my scamp at a glass shop the other day and we were here much longer than we should have because the guy kept answering his phone every minute. He told me some ridiculous price to take a look at it. He said that I had the hardest car in the world to work on for the glass and that no one else would do it. We left and went to another glass shop and they were a lot more friendly and very positive and the price was a fraction of the last place.
 
You have to think that they really don't want your business or that they are required to think..at that shop they had a list of what they were,,,ie, pay taxes., employee people, etc..I suspect the reason was to justify the cost of the parts that they sell..nowhere on the list did they state how to treat customers.

Ian.
 
Well heres what I did. I found this set of seats in a salvage yard in a 65 cuda. Pretty sure they arnt original. Not sure what they are really from. No worries. When I put them in the car I noticed that I would have to make custom mounts to get them at the height and location that I wanted. So I got some tubing an went to town. Might be over kill but im happy with them and they are rock solid.
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DragonMopar said:
Well heres what I did. I found this set of seats in a salvage yard in a 65 cuda. Pretty sure they arnt original. Not sure what they are really from. No worries. When I put them in the car I noticed that I would have to make custom mounts to get them at the height and location that I wanted. So I got some tubing an went to town. Might be over kill but im happy with them and they are rock solid.
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Nice job, that's how I like to do stuff too.
 
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